The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1887-10-18

| Der Il.
The doomed wretch requested the ordinary.
W. ID. Hill, to come to his cell and allow him
| to make his will. He gave one of his town
lots at Mt Airy to his adopted son, and the
other, with his dwelling and personal property,
to his wife and only child.
Charley Edwards, previous to the time that
| ne commenced to visit Mrs. Lizzie Kmsey,
was considered to be of very good character,
6elng accused, one time, of stealth g a pistol
| from j. w. House, while employed by the
Northeastern railroad This pistol proved to
! De the one which shot William Echols, and
the property of one of our fellow townsmen.
edwards was twenty-siX years of age and born
IN jackson county Georgia.
! William Echols was d man of very good
| character and of some property. He was born
in this county, and had never been looked on
as bad man. 1t is true, he visited the house
OF Liz2le himsey, but when he found Charley
| edwards was visiting the same house he told
his brother he would never go there again.
Mrs. Lizzie kimsey is citizen of Mt Airy,
and was indirectly the cause of the Echols
murder, but was not tried in the superior court
| under charge of being an accessory to the
crime, but has been tried and convicted of
! adultery with Charley Edwards, and sentenced
| TO pay fine of $50 and cost or tW Give months
i'll the changing. The evidence in the com
mitment court was not sufficient to implcate
her i'll the murder When the woman was
sentenced she giggled outright.
| Ex-Congressman Eli Thayer in the Boston Herald
In the August number of the Century Maya
| zinc Aessrs. Nicolay and Hay have made sevea e,
! rors of omission and commission which SHOULD be
corrected in the interest of true history ... These
writers say, on page 517 "In asso riation habit Ian
/ guaSe and conduct he clean, but coarse honest
! but rude" Two circumstances, however indicate
! that he was pracicing deception upon the com
mittets and the pable. lie entered into contract
! with blacksmith in CollinsNilc, Conn, to manu-
acturc for him 1000 pixies of certain pattern 10 be
! completed in ninety days Sni paid 500 on the con
! tract. There isno record that he mentioned this
| matter to any committee HIS proposed Kansas
minute men were onlyono h inbred in number, and
| the pixies could not BE for them His explanation
| to the hlacksmi b that they would be good weapon
OF defense for Kansas settlers clearly n subter
! fuge TUs. pixies, order d about March o. 1857
were without doubt intended for his Virginia in
vasion, and in fact the identical lot finished after
long delay, under the same contract, were shipped
| to aim in September, 1852 and were actually used
! IN his liarper's Ferry attempt. The OF @ circum-
stance is that about the time of his contract for the
| pixies, he also, without the knowledge of commit
| tees or friends engaged a worthless adyenturer
named Forbes to go west and give military insruc-
| ons 10 his conpany meaSu e neither useful nor
! practicable for Kansas defense. These two acts
may be taken as the first PREPARATION for Harpers
! Ferry These aIe con tuctiye lies. But John
Brown made Use OF many others II his preparation
! for The Virginia raid, which were i'll no way doubt
! fuI or e4uiyocal
| l. He came to me in Worcester to solicit contri
button of arms for the defense of some Kansas set
! Elements, which he said he knew were soon to be
at a 'kcd 6y parties already organized in Missouri
| Tor that purpose. Not doubling his word, gave
| him all the arms had, in value about 500.
. Under the same false lretcnce he secured an
! other contribution fom Ethan Allen & Co, manu-
! iactme OF arms IN this city These arms also
Were never taken to Kansas, but were captured at
| lIarper's ferry.
Before his attack upon the United States arse
| nal he spent several weeks in Virginia. He pre-
! tendcd to be Il mineralogist, and went about with
| hammer breaking OIL the corners of 10 k Under
the protest OF seeking for copper he found opportu
mt es for trying t. enlist slaves in his little rebel
lion. The repe 2ntatiye in congress from the HAr-
| pers Ferry district gave Inc these fac S.
4. Under the same false lr2tence of aiding the
settlers in Kansas he procured funds from several
! New York merchants, one of whom says that he
gave him ESQ.,
D. IN 1888 he made a raid into Missouri murdered
! M Crews, a Pelccabe old farmer and took away
! eleven slaves, with about $1,000 worth of oxen,
mules, wagons harness, saddles and other property
As soon he had got outside OF the state he sent
agents in all directions solicit ana get the eleven
negroes to Canidl lie from December to Al ril
| getting them through. This SOW movement was
| doubtless for The purpose OF pro Il 5ing much
possible the time for his cents to procure funds
| His plumber ard his collections went, probably, to
] niclc0 ms Htrl e. ; rerlS iunu.
g. lie often asserted that in the above raid he
| liberated several slaves without bloodshed and
witlo 1t tie Use Of weai on5. 1t is proved that Mr.
| Crews was killed in that raid.
T. lie Iel eltedy said that he was not present at
! the POttaWatomG midnight massacre 1t is proved
that he present rs commander of the assassins.
s. lie repeatedly aft med that he took no part in
! those murders, tEoIgh he approved of them. It
| proved that III irst unArmed victim, Mr.. DOYLE,
was killed by Browns own hand, There is abnn-
| dant O'her proof that in all his murders and rob
| berics Wbetherin Kansas, Missouri or Virginia
his creed was that1he end justfes the means" and
that lying in his case was holy vocation, Docs
tLeexprcs.On "hoEest but rude truthiully describe
| john proNn?
| Al that time G859) was serving my second term
in congress- and hal every opportunity to know the
minds ofmtm5ers regarding John Browns raid,
| There was not one member Of the house of repre-
| sgnatiyc3 who considered his punishment unjust.
A very few land was one OF them thought it imIo-
lite and said that it would lave been, better to put
! the criminal in Il nadhOuse for life. This method
| would have made ridiculous any attempts of the
| Ga a. son disuniOnists to cOnsecrate 'Oid Brown"
| either as q lnartyr" or saint" Had any repub-
| lean member Of congress defended the course of
the invader and murderer, or denounced the courts
! Of Virginia fer properly furnishing him captally.
such republican would have been expelled from he
| party without notice or delay. Henry Wilson was
one of the ,dical Of the republicans bat he
said IN Boston, after Browns raid and before his
| execution, in words m emphatic than elegant
| "John Brown is a id fool" Later he said in the
United States senate "Io the allegation that Mas
! sachu It's SYM athi. e with John Browns inya-
/ sion Of Virginia and elected governor who in
| doyei il, wish 10 in'crpo1e emphatic denial
such q charge a libel upon the republican party
upon the state OF MassaChl tits, and upon her gov
ernor." only few months after Browns
! execution the national republican convention met
in iaa2o to nominate candidate for president.
That convention passed unanimously Il resolution
dcuounciug the armed invasion of q state, under
whatever prctcnsc, as one OF the gravest crimes"
90 Every stump speaker for Lincoln in the can
yJss denounced the John Brown raid unsparingly
and inc. sanity Had there been any doubt upon
TINS subject the republican party could not have
carried single state, and probably not a single
town, inGll the northern states.
The active men at that time in urging the claims
OF John Brown as saint were the same ones
who, at the South Pennington meeting on the 9Th
of July 1854, npDiaUel William Lloyd Garrison
while he publicly burned copy Of the constitution